The faculty member can email the letter of support in a separate file to Carson.Holloway.

Or, the faculty member can send the letter of support to the applicant to be included in the single file with the three items above.

Additional Guidelines

You must be an undergraduate.

Judges will group papers into lower-level (first- and second-year) and upper-level (third- and fourth-year) categories based on the author’s class distinction at the time that the paper was written.

Your must write your paper for a course completed at Duke University and use Duke University Libraries' resources.

If you write your paper during a term abroad, you can submit your paper as long as you are enrolled at Duke during your term abroad and use Duke University Libraries' resources for your research.

You can submit a draft of a paper, as long as it reflects your research process and your use of library resources.

Judges will consider honors theses separately from all other papers.

Papers may take the form of a traditional research paper, as well as a digital project. Emphasis should be on the use of library resources and awareness of research strategies, rather than the project’s format

Sumbit digital projects in an appropriate format (e.g. DVD, video, URL of the final project)

You can sumbit an individual paper once only, but you can submit multiple, different papers in a given year. Submit each paper individually with an accompanying application cover sheet, essay and faculty letter of support.